[ubuntu-uk] Volunteer needed in East London
Fossbox is looking for a volunteer to help a women's health organisation in Hackney, East London, to upgrade an Ubuntu LTSP (or possibly simplify the system to a standalone PCs) - I'm snowed under this month and they need someone to go on-site for a day or two and sort it out. Needs some people skills as well as Ubuntu, but they're lovely and will give you lunch etc: http://www.fossbox.org.uk/?q=node/27 Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Login background
- Mensaje original - > > On 11/08/12 01:26, Andres Muniz wrote: > > > > > > > > I had not see this before because the login screen is basically dark > > > purple with black text, with only the login box really standing out. > > > > > > I tried to change the login background but so far failed to get it to > > > see a new image. > > > > > > > > might be very basic answer but i have found that for 12.04 (not > > studio) the login background is linked to the desktop background. > > Unless you choose a picture outside of the default images offered. In > > which case I seem to recall it defaults to a particular background > > different from your desktop background. > > > > Last i checked I still had the small font problem and the unable to > > shutdown if other user is logged in problem (and gives no feedback as > > to why or how). > > > > > > > > I entered this in the terminal: > > sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf > > and in the section under [greeter] changed the filepath after background= > > It had another file referenced there which was from an earlier version > of Ubuntu. > > Changing the image filepath to an existing image I wanted to use did > nothing, I still have the dark background at login. > > My username, the Samba user and Guest login names are all in white and > visible. The icons top right are hard to see, and when I click the > button next to the login box to set the desktop environment I want, the > text is black against the dark background and only visible when one is > highlighted with a white background. > > > So how can I get the login background changed to something else which > works? > > David K > hi david, sorry but this is out of my knowledge. Last time I wanted to change the image all I did was find the image that it was refering and changed the image for mine keeping the same name (not the path in config file). Not as elegant but the same thing. I tried to keep the same size and resolution so it wouldn't get confused. But your comments seems that it is a bit more in depth: could doing an apt-get install/update on the package that handles that work?-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning my current install to a new HDD
On 13/08/12 14:23, Colin Law wrote: On 13 August 2012 14:00, Dave Morley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/08/12 13:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I've looked at various solutions for cloning - they all assume that the new HDD is installed in the computer. I need to clone via a USB HDD as I'm replacing the HDD in my laptop (160GB instead of 80GB - that's all the BIOS will take!) and so cannot install the new HDD alongside the old! I am also looking at the possibility of dual-booting with Windows 7 (hence the bigger HDD - as my wife is being moved to Win 7 with her work laptop and as usual, I suspect that her IT dept will not do it properly) and thus my second question is this: If I install Win 7 first on a partition of the new HDD would I then be able to restore the clone to a second partition and how would that affect Grub? Clonezilla Just to clarify that, with clonezilla you can boot from a live clonezilla CD, clone the disk to an image file (an image file, not an actual clone) on the usb stick (or to another machine on the network). Then change the disk in the laptop and use clonezilla again to re-create the image on the new disk. Then you can use gparted of course to increase the partition size to use the rest of the disc, if that is what you want to do (using the gparted live cd). Colin clonezilla faq is worth looking over http://drbl.org/faq/ and the step by step examples are good too http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning my current install to a new HDD
On 13 August 2012 14:00, Dave Morley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 13/08/12 13:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> I've looked at various solutions for cloning - they all assume that >> the new HDD is installed in the computer. I need to clone via a USB >> HDD as I'm replacing the HDD in my laptop (160GB instead of 80GB - >> that's all the BIOS will take!) and so cannot install the new HDD >> alongside the old! I am also looking at the possibility of >> dual-booting with Windows 7 (hence the bigger HDD - as my wife is >> being moved to Win 7 with her work laptop and as usual, I suspect >> that her IT dept will not do it properly) and thus my second >> question is this: If I install Win 7 first on a partition of the >> new HDD would I then be able to restore the clone to a second >> partition and how would that affect Grub? >> >> > Clonezilla Just to clarify that, with clonezilla you can boot from a live clonezilla CD, clone the disk to an image file (an image file, not an actual clone) on the usb stick (or to another machine on the network). Then change the disk in the laptop and use clonezilla again to re-create the image on the new disk. Then you can use gparted of course to increase the partition size to use the rest of the disc, if that is what you want to do (using the gparted live cd). Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning my current install to a new HDD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/08/12 13:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > I've looked at various solutions for cloning - they all assume that > the new HDD is installed in the computer. I need to clone via a USB > HDD as I'm replacing the HDD in my laptop (160GB instead of 80GB - > that's all the BIOS will take!) and so cannot install the new HDD > alongside the old! I am also looking at the possibility of > dual-booting with Windows 7 (hence the bigger HDD - as my wife is > being moved to Win 7 with her work laptop and as usual, I suspect > that her IT dept will not do it properly) and thus my second > question is this: If I install Win 7 first on a partition of the > new HDD would I then be able to restore the clone to a second > partition and how would that affect Grub? > > Clonezilla - -- You make it, I'll break it! I love my job :) http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.canonical.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAo+mUACgkQT5xqyT+h3OgtXACePlCz6vNFgxr4aBbo7l0w8Pn3 WggAnjZflWI9LN21OLF/D4hAScN8zwIX =Kf/k -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Cloning my current install to a new HDD
I've looked at various solutions for cloning - they all assume that the new HDD is installed in the computer. I need to clone via a USB HDD as I'm replacing the HDD in my laptop (160GB instead of 80GB - that's all the BIOS will take!) and so cannot install the new HDD alongside the old! I am also looking at the possibility of dual-booting with Windows 7 (hence the bigger HDD - as my wife is being moved to Win 7 with her work laptop and as usual, I suspect that her IT dept will not do it properly) and thus my second question is this: If I install Win 7 first on a partition of the new HDD would I then be able to restore the clone to a second partition and how would that affect Grub? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Login background
On 11/08/12 01:26, Andres Muniz wrote: > > I had not see this before because the login screen is basically dark > purple with black text, with only the login box really standing out. > > I tried to change the login background but so far failed to get it to > see a new image. > > might be very basic answer but i have found that for 12.04 (not studio) the login background is linked to the desktop background. Unless you choose a picture outside of the default images offered. In which case I seem to recall it defaults to a particular background different from your desktop background. Last i checked I still had the small font problem and the unable to shutdown if other user is logged in problem (and gives no feedback as to why or how). I entered this in the terminal: sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf and in the section under [greeter] changed the filepath after background= It had another file referenced there which was from an earlier version of Ubuntu. Changing the image filepath to an existing image I wanted to use did nothing, I still have the dark background at login. My username, the Samba user and Guest login names are all in white and visible. The icons top right are hard to see, and when I click the button next to the login box to set the desktop environment I want, the text is black against the dark background and only visible when one is highlighted with a white background. So how can I get the login background changed to something else which works? David K -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
